Seven NEW Archaeology Discoveries of 2024
Stuff just keeps getting older
Thread 🧵, my favorite one from the Amazon at the end (Percy Fawcett & Francisco de Orellana vindicated)
But first, Peru
But first, a Peruvian throneroom
Before the Incas the Moche thrived in Peru.
Archaeologists believe the throneroom belonged to a female ruler, ~700 AD
Also in Peru, an old find was expanded...
New Nazca lines just dropped!
303 New designs found, adding to the already 400 discovered
Kind of look like aliens.
Somehow this temple, right off the cost of Italy, was not found earlier
Right off the coast of Pozzuoli, Italy this Nabatean temple was made just before the Romans took over, around the end of BC
The only temple of its kind outside the Middle East
This find isn't really new, but new INFORMATION is very interesting
The altar stone of Stonehenge, the south of England, is from SCOTLAND
I wonder why they brought it so far away, nearby stones were probably fine
This find is also not new, but more parts were discovered
This huge Necropolis in Egypt houses 10+ levels of tombs, from the Greco-Roman Period
It's old but not as old as....
The new oldest cave art in the world
Found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi
~51,200 years. There must be more on the former Sundaland
and my favorite....
A new, ~2,500 year old city found in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Incredible. Percy Fawcett died trying to find it, he was mocked, but it was there
I wrote a thread on that city, here:
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